Ultrasonographic and radiographic results from a two-year controlled trial of immediate or one-year-delayed addition of infliximab to ongoing methotrexate therapy in patients with erosive early rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-53

  Taylor, P C ^a,e   Steuer, A ^b   Gruber, J ^a   McClinton, C ^a   Cosgrove, D O ^c   Blomley, M J K ^c   Marsters, P A ^d   Wagner, C L ^d   Maini, R N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEXHAM PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31044431737     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21544     Document Type: Article

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